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Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard (Center Books)
Jill Pearlman
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Description for Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard (Center Books)
Hardcover. From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. This work argues that its founder Gropius did not effect these changes alone and, further, that the GSD was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. Num Pages: 272 pages, 86 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD2; AMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school's significance is widely recognized by architectural historians, most studies have concentrated on the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his transformation of Harvard's old Beaux-Arts School of Architecture into a ""Harvard-Bauhaus,"" a radically new school with a single outlook. In ""Inventing American Modernism"", ... Read more
From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school's significance is widely recognized by architectural historians, most studies have concentrated on the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his transformation of Harvard's old Beaux-Arts School of Architecture into a ""Harvard-Bauhaus,"" a radically new school with a single outlook. In ""Inventing American Modernism"", ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926025
SKU
V9780813926025
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About Jill Pearlman
Jill Pearlman teaches the history of architecture and urbanism at Bowdoin College.
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